Poverty rate

Nearly four million people in the Philippines fell into poverty in the first half of 2021 due to lockdown measures induced by the Covid-19...

The number of people in Thailand who need state welfare is expected to increase to 15 million next year from the current level of...

As much as half of Myanmar’s population of a total of nearly 55 million could be living...

Thailand is facing rising urban poverty Around 1.5 million Thais are estimated to have fallen below the poverty...

Sabah has a poverty rate of 19.5 per cent, the highest in Malaysia. Pictured: The famous fish roundabout with the Marlin...

Slum at the outskirts of Phnom Penh © Arno Maierbrugger The poverty rate in Cambodia is expected to...

Malaysia more than doubled its national poverty line income from 980 ringgit ($230) to 2,208 ringgit ($518)...

Myanmar could expect its economy to contract by as much as 2.5 per cent in the country’s...

People queue up for free food handouts from a temple in Bangkok's Don Mueang district earlier this April

Indonesia could be faced with a new wave of poverty as the coronavirus crisis is causing a...

The number of people living in poverty in Thailand climbed considerably between 2015 and 2018 by almost...

Indonesia's Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced on July 18 that the percentage of the Indonesian population living below the poverty line decreased by 2.11...

Inequality in Indonesia has reached historical high, a World Bank report released in Jakarta on December 8 revealed. The country's Gini coefficient, which measures...

The World Bank in the latest of its half-yearly East Asia and Pacific Economic Update reports released in October documents a rapid decline in...